Art lovers are invited to contemplate the resurrection of Renaissance paintings presented in a different context during "Breaking Darkness: Alessandro Giannì Solo Exhibition" at Tang Contemporary Art, until April 25.
On display are artworks by Italian artist Alessandro Giannì, who has turned excerpts of subjects from Renaissance paintings into new forms through use of vivid, contemporary colours. In Giannì's canvasses, the bygone subjects are like characters separated from a story but who endlessly quote their author.
Helping the artist give new existence to the whirlwind of images is Vasari, an artificial intelligence (AI) emulation technology designed by Giannì himself that can compose images before they become paintings.
In this sense the AI operates as a Renaissance assistant, able to digitally process visual compositions as the artist imagines them. It was named after Giorgio Vasari, an Italian painter, architect and writer best known for his biographies of major painters, sculptors and architects from the period 1200 to 1500. Giannì's works therefore testify to each image's process of becoming in time and space. The pictorial surface conveys a memory of the original works and their digital passage. The two aspects mix until producing a new image in which light imbues each scenario with vibrant colours. Tang Contemporary Art is at Room 201-206, River City Bangkok, Charoen Krung 24. Open Tuesday to Sunday from 11am to 7pm.
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